Attorney General G. Vahanvati has informed judges G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly that the procedure of 2G licence allocation was in conformity with the then national telecom policy, according to news reports. Vahanvati said that in the grant of the licences, revenue was not a consideration and the government’s goal was to increase teledensity.
He said this in reply to a petition filed by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, seeking the cancellation of 2G licences on grounds that these were granted arbitrarily and in breach of the first-cum-first served policy. Swamy also said that telecom companies had failed to comply with their contractual responsibility.
